When you're so against racism that you introduce racism . . . maybe you went too far. California high school to introduce race-based grading criteria

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[–]soundsituation 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

They can no longer be docked for missing class, misbehaving in school or failing to turn in their assignments, according to the plan.
By training teachers to remove the non-academic factors from their grading practices

I can see the argument for exempting behavioral issues from grading criteria. I'm not sure I agree with it, but I can see it. And as for demographic impact that would actually help boys more than anyone else. But how is homework a "non-academic factor"?

38 percent of OPRF sophomore students taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) failed.

I didn't actually know you could fail the SAT. Is that a new thing? More to the point, though, how are any of these new policies going to raise SAT scores?

Also, it looks like this school is in Illinois, not California.

[–]iamonlyoneman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

illinois

I saw oak park and my brain said oakland LOL whoops